Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-09-09
An English Candidates Wit.

martben for the representation Of
Brixn. Lord Carmarthen's very
youthful appearance had prompted a
good many personal illusions during
the campaign, and at the meeting he
was interrupted in the middle of a
speech by acostermonger, who shout
ed, Does your mother know y're
out!" 'Yes," retorted the boyish
candidate, "my mother does know
Pm cut" and then screaming at the
top Of his voice, "and on Tuesday
she will know Pm an" Whether this
was"a carefully prepared impromptu"
or not, it took the hearts of the crowd
by storm.
Joseph Watson, of Huntingdon,
Pa, has hickory rocking chair that
has been in use for lis years.
"A Cincinnati woman was so
affected by the heat that she refused
to eat for week and died of starva-
ton
Wilson Waddingham, who lives
in Connecticut, is the largest land
owner in the world. He owns q.
600, 900 acres
A barber who can speak in six
different languages has been arrested
at Madisonville charged with setting
fire to many buildings in the town.
1t is said that lady who leads
the fashion at Saratogs this year. de-
lights not only by the brilliancy Of
her diamonds, but by her primitive
grammar
There are at this time 385 silk
factories in the United States, with
10000 employees and upwards of
$25. 900, ,000 of capital, using annual
ly $4,000, 900 worth of raw material
Of foreign production.
A dispatch from Savannah, Ca,
says rise in the river threatens the
almost complete destruction of 10000
acres of rice in the Savannah bottoms.
The loss will probable reach $780,
000
July was hot month in more
senses than one. Fire burnt up $l4-
100000 worth of property from the
lst to the3lst-a distressing increase
of about $4,000, 900 over the loss in
| the corresponding period last year.
Annie Mercer, Of Missaukee Co.,
Michigan, promises to become
giantess. She is only in her twelfth
year, and yet she is tride over six
feet in stature.
A Chicago lad few days ago
found package containing $4,000.
The honest boy returned it to the
owner, who rewarded the honest lit
tie fellow by giving him ten cents.
"A lady in Lexington, Ga, has a
ball oil yarn that was spun and woven
during the Revolutionary War, over
100 years ego, and yet the thread is
seemingly sound and whole.
Jacob Seligman, of Michigan, is
millionaire and director in nine
banks and fourteen railroads. He is
less than feet high and went to
Michigan 25 years ago without a cent
in his pocket.
A young man in Jackson, Miss,
is eating peaches off tree that grew
from a sprout with W hich his mother
corrected" him years ago. He stuck
the twig in the ground and it grew
right along.
"A young married man from Bir-
mingham. Ala, is crazed at hotel
in Spartansburg, S. c. He is said to
be raving maniac, and the doctors
attribute the cause solely to his ex-
cessive indulgence in the cigarette.
Jasper Caller, near Fabyan's,
has one of the rarest animals ever
seen in the White Mountains. 1t is
a white porcupine, big one, too,
weighing 25 pounds, and already so
tame that it eats from its owners
hands.
CLARK Smith, of Fort Supply,
and Miss Gussey Mason, of Fort Sill,
20 miles apart, were married-hy tel
egraph on Monday. The report says
that everything went lovely, and
full ceremony was given by means
of lightning"
-Mackay, the millionaire, is said
to have lost six of his millions in a
recent wheat speculation in San Fran.
cisco. 1t is always satisfaction
when spectators in the necssaries Of
life come out ut the little end of the
horn.
The conductors of the Philadel-
phia & Reading Railroad Company
have recoi we'd checks for the several
amounts of bonus money withheld
from them years ago. Some of the
checks are for four figures, and the
recipients experience pleasing glow
of wealth. Some conductors on the
North Penn. will receive 81 200 and
over
Some of the efforts that have been
made in various parts the country to
obtain continuous water supply from
driven wells have been successful. The
supply is measurably dependent up.
on The geological formation OF the To-
cality where the experiments are
made, but there have been very few
failures in any part of the country.
Heavy machinery is now run by
artesian well power in many parts of
France, and the experience of the
French shows that the deeper the well,
the greater the pressure and the
higher the temperature. At Gren-
ellie well sunk to the depth of S02
feet, and flowing daily 100000 gal
Ions, has pressure of sixty pounds
to the square inch, and the water
from this well is so hot chat II, is u.s.
ed for heating the hospitals in the vi
cinity.